Tableau Developer Tools

Use the Tableau Embedding API to integrate Tableau visualizations into your own web applications.

With our Tableau Extensions API, developers can create viz extensions that provide customers new viz types and dashboard extensions that help customers to integrate and interact with features or data from other applications directly in Tableau.

Query and discover metadata about Tableau content and external assets.

Automate your interactions with Tableau extract (.hyper) files. You can use the API to create new extract files, or to open existing files, and then insert, update, delete, or read data from those files.

Build a new connector that you can use to visualize your data from any database through an ODBC or JDBC driver.

Extend Tableau calculations to dynamically include popular data science programming languages, tools and platforms and create integrations similar to Tableau’s integrations with TabPy and MATLAB.

Use Web Data Connector (WDC) to connect Tableau to any data on the web

Subscribe to events in Tableau, then capture them in your app or trigger custom workflows.

Import R packages, libraries or any of your saved data models into Tableau.

TabPy framework allows Tableau to remotely execute Python code and saved functions.

Sample code for custom mobile app development.

Programmatically modify Tableau files.